Me govannen!

Padraic Brown tetent:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
>
> >OK.  So we can now work out the details ;-)  And another conlang of
> >independent origin joins the line-up!  (Is there a list of languages
> >spoken *there* available on the Net?  If not, let's compile on here in
> >the list!)
>
> I know of Brithenig, Kerno, Breathanach, that Sarnian tongue, um,
> something Celtic out in Middle America somewhere... Oh yes, er,
> Wessic in, of all places, Wight.

What is Wessic?  I guess some kind of Wessex dialect which for some
reason
went its own way?

> >BTW: Does Kemr include what *here* is Warwickshire and Staffordshire?
>
> Where be they? The map is at <polaris.umuc.edu/~pbrown/map.jpg>
> or was last I checked.

Must have been quite a time ago.  The map just isn't there.
You should know better what is on your own pages and what not!
BTW: To say the dictionary on your site was "not entirely functional"
is quite an euphemism, it does not work at all!

> > [Elvish cities in Kemr; Elvish Heritage Revival]
>
> Ah, for that they'd be travelling down my way!

Pardon?  "Travelling down my way"?  What do you mean?

> >in the city centre of Tavrob`l - right in the heart of the city, there
> >is a circular open space surrounded by standing stones and tall trees) -
> >and learn the Nur-ellen language.
> >
> >I think this could enrich the Brithenig timeline, but it should not be
> >overdone.
> >Viewed from a strict alternative history viewpoint, we are walking on
> >*very* thin ice here, as we are speculating about remnants of a
>
> Mm. Where was the ice thick, I wonder? ;)

I mean that we don't know whether there was ever anything from which
Nur-ellen could plausibly have evolved.  A "purist" historian might
intervene that
we are adding an element based on pure speculation.  But, heck, we are
doing it just for fun, and it is all speculation, anyway!  And no-one
knows that those people were *not* there!

> >civilization that predates the Celtic invasion and is almost completely
> >unknown to the historians *here* who have found little more than a few
> >pieces of pottery and consider the attempts of a certain English scholar
> >to reconstruct their languages to be pure fiction.
>
> Well. It is obviously a bit better known *there*, then!

Yes.  Obviously!

Syld,
Joerg.